keris oil

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Originally Posted by nechesh

Are you sure clove oil isn't corrosive???

The last bottle of sword oil I got out of Japan is identified as Clove Oil (it is the only English written on the bottle). It sure do smell like clove oil!

Japanese swords are real "finicky" as to what kind of oil you can put on them... some “everyday” machine oils can turn the blade dark - a disaster on an expensive Samurai blade (as well as... at over $100 per inch to re-polish plus shipping, and so on... you want to use the right stuff). Mineral oil is the oil of choice (on Japanese blades)... when lacking all others. But it does not have any odor.